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“Found
poems” are poems that are created from words or lines found on
street signs or in ads, newspaper articles, lists, phone books, novels, or
any kind of prose writing – even interesting lines from existing poems. While finding words, lines, and a quotation, you must keep
track of the sources you used so you can make a bibliography page.
Since you will be using lines composed by other people, it is
essential that they be given credit.
Here are the rules:
1.
Your poem should have a total of at least eight
lines.
2.
No more than two lines can come from
any one poem.
3.
Only one
poem can come from any one book.
4.
The poem should be introduced by a quote.
The quote is an introduction to your poem.
5.
The one or two word title should
reveal your poem’s subject or theme.
The title is something you create; it is not found.
6.
You will use parenthetical citations
for each two lines of poetry. (Poet's last name and the page number)
7.
Each source must be cited on the Works Cited page in alphabetical
order.
Entries on the
WORKS CITED page should look like the example
below.
Angelou,
Maya. “Preacher Don’t
Send Me.” Twenty Poems
from Voices of Power. Ed.
George Danielson. New York:
Bantam Books, 1991.
Be
sure to record the bibliographic information for each
source you use. Record this information for each poem and for your
quotation.
| Line 1: |
| Line 2: |
| Poet/Author: |
| Title of Poem: |
| Title of Book (Anthology): |
| Editor: |
| Place of Publication: |
| Name of Publisher: |
| Date of Publication: |
| Page Number: |
Sky
Fragments
“The
sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep
their diary.”
-Alfred
Kreymborg
How thin and sharp is the moon
tonight!
How thin and sharp and ghostly white (Hughes 3)
It wasn't quite day and it wasn't
quite night
'Cause the sun and the moon were both still in sight (Silverstein
100)
A piece of sky
Broke off and fell (Silverstein 31)
Spilling down clear green sparks, gold
spears,
Silent sliding silver waterfalls and stars (Worth 89).
Reid
Garrison
(2003)
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